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Amira Jarmakani is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Georgia State University. Her areas of specialization include transnational feminisms, visual culture, Arab American studies, as well as literatures of representation and the body. Dr. Jarmakani has served as a core organizer for AMWAJ: Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice and she is a member of the Radical Arab Women&#;s Activist Network
(RAWAN). Recent publications include articles entitled "Mobilizing the Politics of Invisibility in Arab American Feminist Discourse," and "Belly Dancing for Liberation: A Critical Interpretation of Reclamation Rhetoric in the American Belly Dance Community.&#; Currently, she is writing a book entitled Disorienting America: The Nostalgic Allure of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in U.S. Popular Culture.

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• Amira Jarmakani, San Diego State University

  Amira Jarmakani is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Women`s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She received her PhD from Emory University in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts (Cultural Studies) with a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, and her BA from Duke University in English with secondary teacher certification. She is the author of An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (NYU, ) and Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the US (Palgrave Macmillan, ), which won the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize. She has published articles in Sig

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  Amira Jarmakani works on questions of race, gender, ethnicity and representation in U.S. popular culture. Her most recent book, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (NYU Press, ), demonstrates how desire animates contemporary U.S. imperialism. Investigating the increased popularity of desert romances concurrent with the war on terror, the book demonstrates love to be a salient lens through which to understand how the war on terror works and how it perseveres. Her first book, Imagining Arab Womanhood, analyzes orientalist representations of Arab and Muslim womanhood in varied contexts, such as the Chicago World’s Fair, early twentieth century tobacco advertisements, contemporary advertisements and photographs, and the contemporary “American belly dance” movement. Looking at photographic albums and advertisements featuring belly dancers, veiled women, and harem imagery in comparative historical contexts, the book argues that they offer a shorthand for communicating social anxieties about expansionism, modernity, and the loss of the frontier at t

  Martin Garrix

  Dutch DJ and producer Date of Birth: Country: Netherlands

  
  Content:

  1. Biography of Martin Garrix
  2. Rising Career and Success
  3. Breakthrough with Animals
  4. Continued Success and Collaborations
  5. Recent Releases

  Biography of Martin Garrix

  Early Life and Passion for Music
  

  Martijn Garritsen, known by his stage name Martin Garrix, was born on May 14, , in Amstelveen, Netherlands. He developed a passion for music at the young age of four when he started learning the guitar. By the age of eight, Garrix became interested in the DJ culture after witnessing Tiesto's performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Athens. Inspired by Tiesto's track "Traffic," Martin downloaded special software and began composing his own music. He recently graduated from the Herman Brood Academy in Utrecht, a renowned producer school.

  Rising Career and Success

  Under various aliases, Martin Garrix wrote tracks for other artists, but only one out of his fifty compositions gained public attention. He began his career with the composition "BFAM," a collaboration with Julian Jordan. In , he was named "Talent DJ of the Year" by the radio station SLAM! FM. That same yea

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